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Mark Cherry wrote in message ...
In news:un_9b.489270$uu5.84118@sccrnsc04,
Marc wrote:

I notice in a number of flight simultors that the airports tend to
be lit up far brighter than they are in real life. In FS2004 you can
pick out the airport pretty easily by the spot green light or runway
lights that kind of jump out of the scenary. In real life it is much
more subtle, especially in an urban area where the airport can get
lost among the thousands of city lights nearby.

Any method for making the airport lights less distnictive or just
turning them down?


This is interesting. In another newsgroup cough I've seen at least
two different threads started by people asking how they can get the
runway/taxiway lighting BRIGHTER. What gives?

I think the problem with FS2002 and 2004 is that the city lights
aren't bright enough.

Fly over Vegas or London at night; they don't look as bright and
city-like as they should - whereas the runway light effects look
perfectly bright. This makes the runways look too bright to people
like Marc who like landing in urban airports.

I normally fly from EGPC (Wick, Scotland) or EGPD (Dyce, Scotland)
where there is either little or no city surrounding the airfield.

Some airstrips with LIAL (Low-Intensity Airport Lighting) are too
dark, IMHO; I once flew right over Stornaway airport while looking for
the runway, and didn't spot it until it was too late... TO/GA time !!

Cheers
Graeme




I agree, usually while night flying in highly lighted city areas I look
for the airport by beacon and a dark piece of landscape, it is very easy
to miss the low intensity airstrips and also quite difficult to find
lower lighted approaches in a bright city setting. I once did a night
flight to KABE and had to have the runway lights turned up twice on base
before I could see them. At that time I didn't have many flight hours
and felt rather insecure in my skills. However while taxing to the GA
ramp. I overheard a US Air Shuttle request brighter settings twice also,
needless to say that made my night and dispelled my lack of self faith.
I guess the tower troller just had sore eyes that night or the electric
bill was killing them

As for the FS side of it would be nice if we could click out the
intensity low medium or high from a panel )

We do our clicks from radio to non towered runway lights ......

Safe Flying out there.